Painters biography

And so I open the materials of the lesson and see this year in the year I moved to Odessa, where his father managed a tea factory. There, along with a visit to the classical gymnasium, the boy learns the game on the piano and cello and is engaged in drawing with a private teacher. Already in the children's works of Kandinsky there were very non -traditional color combinations that he explained by the fact that "every color lives his mysterious life." However, the parents of Vasily in the future saw his lawyer.

In the year he goes to Moscow, where he enters the law faculty of Moscow University. Having brilliantly graduating from training, six years later, Vasily marries his cousin Anna Cheyakina. In the year, he becomes an assistant professor of the law faculty and remains to teach. In the year, the famous Derpt University in Tartu, where the process of Russification took place at that time, offers a thirty -year -old Kandinsky place of a professor of jurisprudence, but at this time he decides to leave a promising career and completely devote himself to painting.

Subsequently, Kandinsky recalled the two events that influenced this decision: a visit to the exhibition of French impressionists in Moscow in the year, where he was shocked by the picture of Claude Monet "Stog Hay", and the impression of the opera Richard Wagner "LoEngrin" in the Bolshoi Theater. However, very soon the school ceases to satisfy its needs. Later, the artist will write: "Often I was inferior to the temptation to" take a "take" the lesson and go with the sketchic to Schwabing, Englysher-Garten or the parks in Isara.

" In the city of a thing, "the first German drawingman." The master is satisfied with his student, but considers him a palette too bright. Fulfilling his requirements, Kandinsky writes for a whole year exclusively in black and white, "studying the form as such." During this period, Kandinsky gets acquainted with the young artist Gabriel Munter, and in the year parted with his wife Anna Cheyakina.

The next five years, they have been traveling around Europe, engaged in painting and participating in exhibitions. Returning to Bavaria, they settle in the small town of Murnau at the foot of the Alps. The stage of intense and fruitful search begins.

The works of these years are mainly landscapes built on color dissonances. The game of color spots and lines gradually replaces the images of the real reality of the “Akhtyrka. The Court of Castle”, in the same years he turned to the Russian fabulous, epic antiquity, creating the fascinating images “Russian Horseman”,; "Russian beauty in the landscape", turning into visible mysterious legends about the Slavic wooden cities "Russian village on the river with boats", approx.